Subject: Pine cannot read news messages 's'aved to a 'nn' folder.

From: "'Mike' M Ramey" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:14:29 -0800 (PST)

Documentation Only -- I sometimes use pine as a newsreader; my longtime
newsreader has been 'nn'.  When reading news with nn, I often 's'ave
(or sh'o'rt-save) interesting messages into my 'nn' folders.  Just now
I configured the pine folder collections so that I could read these
nn-saved messages with pine also.  IT DOES NOT WORK.  Apparently 'nn'
mucks up the header information so pine can't sort out the individual
messages; pine sees just one huge message.  Rats!  Sample header below.
-mr

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When you run the FindVirus program, you may see a message like:
   C:\DOCS\MYDOC.DOC\2.OLE identified as ... virus !!!
If you wonder what "2.OLE" means, read on.  -mr
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From: "'Mike' M Ramey" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:36:44 -0800 (PST)

And apparently the attempt to read an 'nn' folder with pine changes the
nn folder file, so that the next time you try to read it with nn, you
get the error message at the bottom of the screen: 
     Not a folder (no article header)
Apparently other nn folders in the same directory are not damaged.

I have included below the top of the nn folder file _before_ and
_after_ the error message appeared in nn; I cannot see any difference
in these lines, but I know the error does occur and is reproducable!

Any comments would be appreciated, in addition to "DON'T  DO  IT !!!"
Many thanks, -mr

On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, 'Mike' M Ramey wrote:
> Documentation Only -- I sometimes use pine as a newsreader; my
> longtime newsreader has been 'nn'.  When reading news with nn, I
> often 's'ave (or sh'o'rt-save) interesting messages into my 'nn'
> folders.  Just now I configured the pine folder collections so that I
> could read these nn-saved messages with pine also.  IT DOES NOT WORK. 
> Apparently 'nn' mucks up the header information so pine can't sort
> out the individual messages; pine sees just one huge message.  Rats! 
> Sample header below.  -mr

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From: Steve Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:13:27 -0800 (PST)

The "nn" man page says in describing its save files:

          Articles can optionally be saved in MAIL or MMDF compatible
          format by setting the mail-format and mmdf-format variables.
          These variables only specify the format used when creating a
          new folder, while appending to an existing folder will be
          done in the format of the folder (unless folder-format-check
          is false).

If you use the "MAIL" format for your save files, there is a good chance
that Pine will interact with the folder in a friendly way.  Good Luck!

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  Steven Jones
  Computing & Communications 354843,  University of Washington
  E-mail:  [email-masked]    Phone:  (206) 543-5852